(b) "recognition for colonies and unequal nations of the right to secession."

Real guarantees: not only in words, but in d e e d 
(to detail and make concrete—form of declaration in 
parliaments, etc.). Namely: in deed, a s s i s t a n c e 
to revolutionary struggle and uprisings in colonies.

3) Federal union—as a form of transition to complete unity.

The experience of the RSFSR: concrete accounting of the content of federation 
(railways, post, military affairs, national e c o n o m y, etc.).

## ANNOTATIONS ON THE TELEGRAM FROM COMRADE G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
JUNE 8, 1920

Moscow, to Lenin, Stalin, Chicherin

Baku, June 8. The Peace delegation* returned today. 
They will meet again tomorrow. The Georgians are presenting 
impossible demands, do not want to recognize the mixed commission. 
Azerbaijan has agreed to the border before the coup. We must pressure 
the Georgians and force them to agree to the old border. With regard 
to the Poliansky Bridge and the Red Bridge, it is necessary either 
to neutralize them, or on one side to station Azerbaijani troops, 
on the other—Georgian troops. Do not consider 
these questions unworthy of attention, since 
counterrevolution is speculating on this, pointing out 
that without Bolsheviks the Georgians would not have dared to touch us, 
and now they are taking our lands.

Ordzhonikidze

## NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
JUNE 9, 1920

I request that you send Litvinov and Krasin a cipher message of the following kind:

In Paris, arrondissement XIV, on the street Victor Considérant 5, 
lives Monsieur Weisbein, who has a suitcase

* The reference is to negotiations of a delegation of Soviet Azerbaijan 
with Menshevik Georgia.
** On the telegram there is an annotation by I. V. Stalin: "Already spoke [about it]."

with party and personal archives of mine. Try to obtain it with utmost secrecy. 
Weisbein works at the office "Florence," Boulevard Saint-Michel, 40.

*Remind me to speak about this with Chicherin.**

Lenin

## RESOLUTION
JUNE 14, 1920

By protocol of comrades Belenky, Ivanychev, and Gabalin, it is established 
that by order of the director of the sanatorium, comrade Vever, a perfectly 
healthy spruce tree was felled on June 14, 1920 in the park of the sanatorium.

For permitting such damage to Soviet property, I order that comrade Vever, 
director of the sanatorium at the Soviet estate Gorki, be subjected to 
arrest for 1 month.

The sentence is to be carried out by the Podolsk district executive committee, 
whereby:

(1) if it is discovered that comrade Vever has not been subject to penalties 
before, then after one week of arrest release him conditionally with a warning 
that, in case of a new instance of improper felling of the park, alleys, forest, 
or other damage to Soviet property, he will not only be subjected, in addition 
to new punishment, to arrest for 3 weeks, but also removed from his position.

(2) The deadline for carrying out the sentence shall be determined by the District 
Executive Committee—in agreement with the District Land Department or the board 
of State Farms, so that agricultural work and the economy suffer not the slightest 
damage.

I instruct comrade Belenky to announce this resolution to comrade Vever and his 
assistants, having them sign a statement that it has been announced and explained 
to them, and that the following similar violation will entail punishment of all 
employees and workers, not only the director.

I instruct the District Executive Committee to report to me on the deadline set 
by it for serving the arrest and on the serving of it itself.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)